how to use virtualbox to check a program for viruses

I'll look around later and see what I can find.Ĭbm crazybeardedman Posts: 2 Joined: 30. If you funnel everything through the linux distro, how much slow down would you have on your internet connection? Heuristic virus detection is inherently slow as well, not to mention memory/cpu intensive.

It would be fun to do this with the usb linux installations.Īnother issue would be connection speed. What I mean is, has someone already done this?Ī commercial company is doing something similar with usb pc's The question is if there is one that has been made usable in such a way that you can install it on the usb drive.Īnyone out there: can this be done? O.k., that's silly.

You would also need an anti-virus program of some sort. You also have to keep in mind that setting up the virtual machine poorly will allow malicious code to escape the virtual machine. You can escape a virtual machine a vulnerability is used, in this case within VirtualBox. Although I haven't done this on a usb stick, I would assume that you would have to set your live distro as a proxy server (squid most likely). Yes, it is safer to execute programs in a virtual machine but it is not complete safe (then again, what is).

How to use virtualbox to check a program for viruses